evan price wrote:In Cabela's today noticing they are much busier than the Dick's field and stream across the street.Pointed it out to the cashier and she agreed.I said it's because Cabela's isn't Dick's.She agreed and thought that was hilarious

evan price wrote:In Cabela's today noticing they are much busier than the Dick's field and stream across the street.Pointed it out to the cashier and she agreed.I said it's because Cabela's isn't Dick's.She agreed and thought that was hilarious

Should say Cabela's arn't Dick's.

I agree. I was at Cabela's Saturday last weekend (Columbus) and the parking lot and store was packed. After I bought a gamecam I stopped at Field & Stream at the mall across the street. It was not busy at all.

deanimator wrote:It's hard to "boycott" a store whose staff is so rude, lazy and incompetent that you can't attract anyone's attention long enough to actually buy anything.

When they don't sell anything in which you have the slightest interest, then they're effectively boycotting YOU.

This is sort of the way I felt also the last time I was in a Dick's Sporting Goods store. In addition, their prices weren't any better, and in some cases worse, than other places that sell the same items.

He makes a very good point. The "silent" majority might not have all the money but they do spend it where they feel welcome.

AlanMThere are no dangerous weapons; there are only dangerous men. - RAHFour boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, ammo - use in that order.If you aren't part of the solution, then you obviously weren't properly dissolved.

This news means that yes, Dick’s felt the shock of the boycott, but it was mitigated by increases elsewhere.

I maintain that this increase was a short-term boost driven largely by anti-gunners desperate to counter the boycott by gun rights advocates. I also maintain that it’s not sustainable.

I think Dick’s knows this, too. Despite the evidence it had to have been seeing internally, the company still hired lobbyists to push for a federal ban on the very same guns it vowed to remove completely from its stores. This sounds like it knows what is driving these sales and it’s not expecting it to last.

And it shouldn’t.

Anti-gunners are pouring through the doors–either in physical space or the internet–and making all of their purchases through Dick’s to prove a point. That will fade as it always does. Their outrage and anger will be redirected at some other target, some other shiny object, and they’ll forget all about Dick’s.

Meanwhile, the gun rights advocates are unlikely to forget any time soon how Dick’s treated them and what it’s pushing to do with its revenue, namely restrict our rights through legislation. That means no revenue from those folks at all. Not just on guns and hunting merchandise, but no weight sets or tennis rackets either.

Dick’s will feel that once the shine rubs off of it with their temporary allies.

At least, that’s my feelings on the subject.

“A free people claim their rights, as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.”-Thomas Jefferson, 1774

Tweed Ring: "...we should have all done more to elected Republicans..." Agreed

There's something else to think about with respect to this situation.If they drop ALL firearms they can drop their FFLs and all the training and vetting of personnel that entails and get the BATFE off their backs.

That still doesn't excuse the hiring of anti-gun lobbyists.

AlanMThere are no dangerous weapons; there are only dangerous men. - RAHFour boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, ammo - use in that order.If you aren't part of the solution, then you obviously weren't properly dissolved.